land farming was, in this section where it had been tried, a failure. Most of this land later was sold for taxes and bought by sheep and cattle interests. In 1913, the Delta Land and Water Company constructed the Rocky Ford Dam, which is at the...

smoke. A table and benches had been erected, and by nightfall a hot dinner was prepared, a dormitory, for the boys had been arranged in the second story of the old Administration Building. (This building was formerly the offices of the officers of...

Southern Utah Power Company for a street lighting program on Center Street, west to the school and Hoover Avenue. Delinquent water notices were sent o u t , also shut-off notices have been mailed out and collections are coming in much better. Oct....

flour came in from Deming, "you never saw such tickled kids in your life. We were going around eating the flour as if it were cake. The com bread, without any sait or soda, was just l i e hardpan." Broughton wrote the following about his father,...

infomed by his Mexican employee that his life had been threatened by a Mexican, Benino Terene, and his foiiowers. He wged Lunt to leave before violence was done to him. Soon thereafter a force of fifteen men under Terene rode into the ranch and...

ming, Southern Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Northern Arizona and Southern California were all included in their rolonization plans. Strategic points throughout this vast empire were to be occupied and controlled. The intervening territory would be filled...

Thomas Jones worked with the Deseret Iron Company through this time and lost about all of his wages through the failure of the undertaking." At the industry's peak, the population of Cedar City grew to 928 inhabitants and with its abandonment, the...